April 25, 2011

America Lost?

We just got four swell pieces of information.

The First: The Supreme Court refused to accept an expedited review of ObamaCare. The Justices don't seem to think that this unconstitutional horror show and its attendant hijacking of one-fifth of the U.S. economy is worth taking a quicker look at. They are A-OK with letting it just meander through the appellate court process as if it were some garden-variety case.

This is madness. And since it's madness, it's also a win for the Obama administration and the Democrats. Why? Because the longer this thing drags on, the deeper ObamaCare's tentacles can go into American health care, and the more difficult it will be to detach them. Team Obama WANTS to slow-walk ObamaCare through the courts for 2 reasons: 1. They front-loaded this monstrosity with "goodies"---such as the pre-existing condition exemption and kids being allowed to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26---to get people addicted to the new entitlement. The longer that can go on, the more people might warm to it. (Although that hasn't happened yet. A clear majority still favors complete repeal.) And 2. If Justice Elena Kagan recuses herself from the case (as she should since she argued on behalf of ObamaCare as Solicitor General), there might be a hung Court: a 4-4 decision. In that event, the ruling of the lower Appellate Court would stand. Team Obama is playing the odds that a left-wing Appellate Court will uphold it.

By not fast-tracking the case, the Supremes just did every American a grave disservice. Everybody and their momma knows that the case is going to end up there anyway. Why prolong the pain? The only reason is to help the unpopular policy out politically. Pathetic.

The Second: The International Monetary Fund announced that according to its latest forecasts, China's economy is set to surpass America's economy in just 5 short years. The "Age of America," they say, will soon be over. Now, they may just be a bunch of international bankers and bureaucrats looking to score some rhetorical points against the United States. Or they may be correct. Given our oppressive and unsustainable debt, weak growth, and high unemployment, my guess is the IMF is closer to being right than wrong. After all, they're not alone: Standard and Poor's just downgraded our credit outlook from "stable" to "negative." If Obama's plan is to take American down a notch or two, it's working.

The Third: You know Obama is a disaster when he loses the support of a man he so clearly and openly supported: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas went public with his disappointment and contempt for Obama: "It was Obama who suggested a full settlement freeze," Abbas said, referring to the Israeli construction that was a sticking point in peace talks. "I said OK, I accept. We both went up the tree. After that, he came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump. Three times he did it."

That's what you call a DISS of epic proportions. It takes a lot for a foreign leader to slam the President of the United States publicly. Saudi King Abdullah has been doing it in private---and obliquely in public. Other leaders have been either rolling their eyes or, tired of waiting for the administration to take action here or there, are doing it themselves. Many of them wonder whether Obama is either completely incompetent or stoking chaos for a more sinister purpose.

The Fourth: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned that the war in Libya (meant to prevent an imaginary slaughter) is headed quickly toward "stalemate." Meanwhile, the White House released a statement "strongly condemning" the actual slaughter being carried out by the terrorist Syrian regime against its own people. It's a moral relativity extravaganza!

Everywhere you look, proclamations are being made that America is in decline, losing its global leadership role through fiscal irresponsibility at home and breathtaking weakness abroad. We can turn this around, but we're going to need a real president in 2012 and a real Republican party. So far, we haven't seen many signs of either. One thing's for sure: we are Americans, and Americans don't stand for weakness, collapse, and being second best. Our leaders might, but we don't. So once again, our leaders are going to have to gangway so we the people can save the country.

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I think it is becoming obvious now to even the most ardent of doubters that the President's plan is not one of incompetence; it is to destroy America, reduce it to third world status, steal the wealth, and artificially elevate (the only way it can happen) blacks to the top of the chain.
He is a pawn, however, in the Hands of George Soros, who doesn't really care about all that--he truly wants to rule the world; and is making his move right now.

////This is madness. And since it's madness, it's also a win for the Obama administration and the Democrats. Why? Because the longer this thing drags on, the deeper ObamaCare's tentacles can go into American health care, and the more difficult it will be to detach them/////

Time out, Cara Mia. What to do about this obscene foot=dragging on Obamanationcare, the thing most Americans now rank with glorified rat poison? Listen up. There's a brilliant idea afoot. (Listening)?.... All we need for it is your Republicans to implement it.

Re the epic debate on raising the debt ceiling, here's all that your Goo---er, uh, yout Republicans need do: Make raising the debt ceiling contingent on repealing, or defunding, O=Care. That's all. End of sentence---and sentencing America to this Third Worlding. They understand "contingent," right?

Sweetheart, your Republicans will get right on it? Right? They will stand up and do this thing which is in their power to do. No repeal or defunding of the glorified rat poison? Then no raising of the debt ceiling. Got it? They'll get it. Right?

Which should also make you very skeptical as to the X-lax's continual statements that it wants to see the Bama removed form office.

Don't believe a word of it, it's a smoke screen.

The X-lax is as DJ correctly pointed out, an ideological fellow traveler with the Bama. Hatred of Whites, who are labeled descendants of Cain, fits perfectly into the sick rhetorical scheme laid out by the likes of the NBP, farraKKKan, the various "reverends" polluting the scene and a host of "black studies" academics like "prof" Kambon who stated right on C-SPAN that he wants to see the entire planet "cleansed" of Whites.

All of this must be seen - and reacted to - in context.

The Bama is smack dab in the middle of it all.

And the X-lax is a small teensy-weensy part of the process.

Those who are dreaming of a Caucasian Holocaust have never been nearer to achieving their goals.

Haley Barbour may have had trouble with birther-type sensitivities of some Republicans. Who's his real mama? Where did she go - out of the country? Where does this all leave Eli Lily and Mitch? AS the mayor of NYC commented "We need to stop talking about the birther issue." All the good jobs seem to go to legitimate children.

Obama is too weak to lead. America is free-floating is a sea of special interests. We need a strong leader type - an occasional golfer, someone not afraid to take on. Perhaps that is why Trump is an attractive person to many people.

Like him or lump him, toast him or Tokyo Rove him, you must acknowledge this: Donald Trump is not a Gooper.

Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for Ivy League

(AP) – 2 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.

"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."

KRAUTHAMMER " Donald Trump: He’s not a candidate, he’s a spectacle. He’s also not a conservative. With a wink and a smile, Muhammad Ali showed that self-promoting obnoxiousness could be charming. Trump shows that it can be merely vulgar. A provocateur and a clown, the Republicans’ Al Sharpton. The Lions have a better chance of winning the Super Bowl."

gringoNOTE: Charles Krauthammer compares Donald Trump, highly successful and competent in venues local, national and international=== to Al Sharpton, anointed by the liberal corporate media as a "black leader" despite his well-documented history as a venal shakedown artist who'd likely be in an orange jumpsuit if his skin was not a politically correct color.

Has "conservative" Charles Krauthammer taken leave of his highly educated gourd?

No, he hasn't. He notes one thing accurately: Trump and Sharpton are both loud. Krauthammer doesn't like loud. His ears are fine. They can hear decibels. Krauthammer's problem: His ears can't see---especially see the difference between a world=class businessman and a shuck n' jive minstrel show.

I understand Monica does not agree with President Obama on probably 100% of the issues, but this piece does not offer any new ideas. All she says is vote GOP and all will be fixed? Really? The problems we as a country are facing right now are a result of policies that survived through Republican and Democratic presidencies over the past 35 years. Did China suddenly emerge after January 20th 2009 or something? Did our deficit magically go from zero to $1.5 trillion since January 20th 2009? I understand and fully support the idea that we all can criticize the current President's policies and so on, but for crying out loud be intellectually honest. If Monica wants to trumpet Mahmoud Abbas and his comments about President Obama - maybe she should also have pointed out that Abbas is the disputed head of the Palestinian National Authority because his term expired in 2009 but he has refused to relinquish power? Also, maybe Monica should have pointed out that fact that the issue of Israeli settlements has been the sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since before Reagan administration and every US President has struggled in this regard?

AND THERE IT IS THIS 24th Day of APRIL, 2011 for all to see no matter how you cut it - THE TRUTH!

"I believe we no longer have free market capitalism and we no longer have a democracy," says David Stockman, the blunt-talking former Michigan Congressman and Director of the OMB during the Reagan administration.

You do know that David Stockman refers to ,"The BIg Tax Lie by the Republicans.
He's the one who made me look up the "TRUTH " about taxes.
He stated that whenever Reagan raised taxes. That, no one could call it as such.
"It's conservative lore that Reagan the icon cut taxes, while George H.W. Bush the renegade raised them. As Stockman recalls, "No one was authorized to talk about tax increases on Ronald Reagan's watch, no matter what kind of tax, no matter how justified it was." Yet raising taxes is exactly what Reagan did"
My whole point in bringing up the tax rate issue was conservatives use the "lowering tax rates helps the economy. When, History proves otherwise. AND, Stockman agrees.

We see so many libs come in here complaining that Monica is to rough on their Chicago boy the Bama.

They complain about the nature of the criticism and sometimes about the style of said criticism. Often there is also the accusation of "racism".

What we never hear from any of them is what exactly the Anointed One is doing that is s o great and wonderful.

Is it not racism to put a "person of color" above criticism?

Is it not racism when over 99% of the entire black vote goes to the black candidate?

Is it not racism when the whitelibs in the media self-censor and allow the most powerful man on Earth to get away with things that a white man would never be allowed to get away with. Czarist rule comes to mind.. the undeclared illegal war on Libya.. and a host of other things.. the racist AG holder nominated by their guy is another.. the list could go on ad nauseam..

Before the next lib comes in here ragging on Monica or anyone else for criticizing the Bama let them state what he does that is so great and wonderful.

Let them also hear that they set the standard for ho a president is criticized by the way they dealt with George W. Bush.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot it seems that they can't deal with it.

http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/CHAS-89LPZ9?OpenDocument
Interseting how the 2 worse economic times happen when tax rates were at their lowest. The Depression and this Recession.
Know that people will continue to believe in the lie. When their bank accounts profit from it.
But, the sad part is that the politicians are making the average people belive in it too. And, they are the ones who suffer from it.

When politics are involved. There will always be "partisan articles". It's always the "other side who is to blame.

Obama wants to take us down a notch. We've been arrogant, we've played the cowboy, we haven't gone to the UN and bowed down to their authority, and we've acted alone in defending our national interests instead of relying on the UN to protect our interests. Instead of being the leader of the free world we should have gone around apologizing for America, apologizing for our many sins, apologizing for not sending enough of our hard earned money overseas to those more needy at the UN. We've grown our military too large and offended our enemies. We need to reduce the size of our military so we won't offend countries like Iran and Cuba, and free up more money for the welfare state. We've not followed the example of other more successful countries that have nationalized their health care, nationalized their industries, nationalized their fuel industry, and nationalized their educational systems. We need to be more like France, Germany, Holland, Spain, and Greece.

And finally we just need to apologize for being Americans and electing a cowboy like George W. Bush. We were so bad when we elected someone who actually called the war on terror, the war on terror. Shame on us.

UGGA BUNGA, First, it doesn'y bother me if Monica attacks Obama. Can't be a true party loyalist and agree with what the other party said, right?
What I attacked in the past was when she attacked Obama for wanting to try the Christmas Bomber in Civilian court. But, denied that Bush wanted to do the exact same thing with the shoe bomber.Attack Obama for Libya when Bush lied about WMD to attack Iraq. The blame Clinton for NAFTA when it was Reagan and Bush 1 who started it. All Clinton did was to sign it since Bush got thrown out of office beforehand. These ,"do as I say, not as I do" was old when people started using that mindset.
I know I can't get people to accept the truth about taxes,etc. When, their bank accounts have profited greatly by the lie. But,more people are realizing that it is a lie.

Bill Collins, a millionaire,
writes: "Those of us who have the greatest ability to pay are not being asked
to. I am not keen on being part of the freeloader class"

Never said that Obama was perfect> Or any party. That's why I don't vote along party lines.
"the undeclared illegal war on Libya"
Was the Korea war a declared war? Vietnam? Afghanistan, Iraq? The "do as I say. Not as I do" again?

sorry Jay, but you sound like your first vote you voted straight D & most likely will do the same the second time around.

I know you are young & impressionable cause you have apparently never heard let allow applied "QUESTION AUTHORITY"

what about that 47% that don't pay ANY taxes. & for the extremely wealthy who feel they don't pay enough, let them write a check to the IRS to help bring down the deficit, kind of like putting their big money where their big bolviating mouths are. Golden years pal, has awhole new meaning; getting pi$$ed on

"I know you are young & impressionable cause you have apparently never heard let allow applied "QUESTION AUTHORITY"
Young? how old are you 65, 70? You would have to be to be older than me. Remember growing up as a kid in the very early 50s. The cartoons like Crusader Rabbit,shows like Howdy Doody. when I was older, Remember,The Schwerner(know it's misspelled) , Goodman and Chaney case on TV. Tate-LaBianca, Where I was when JFK was shot. Just beacuse I don't believe in things like the Republicans raised the debt and spent less than the Dems. Doesn't mean I'm young.
Just. instaed of believing what people said. Looked it up.

let alone, not allow...personally I do get tired of hearing the same sh!t with the disclaimer I vote for the person, not the party

explain the difference without IRS stats puhleeze

NO RINOS 2012

Posted by: thebuckstopshere | April 25, 2011 at 11:33 PM
Would any of you NOT vote along party lines? Doubt it. Even it's a 3rd party like the tea party.
The IRS stats?
Simple , people questioned where did I get my stats about who lowered the unemployment the most, Who, raised the debt the most. So, showed that I use government stats.
I don't like others just blame someone because they are convienent. Like blaming Clinton for Nafta. Would rather do some resaerch and find the truth.

don't doubt it, re-read my posts, I have been an Independent for a very long time, & you have a problem connecting the dots....I WILL STATE IT ONE MORE TIME, (for the a.d.d.) I PERSONALLY THINK BOTH PARTIES ARE IN COLLISON, ACT AS ONE IN SCREWING US ALL. IN SIMPLIER TERMS THEY BOTH STINK.

THEY ARE MORE SELF ENTITLED THAN THE RICH THEY ATTACK, & FOR THE MOST PART ARE DOING QUITE WELL FOR THEMSELVES, AT OUR EXPENSE.

I AM STILL WAITING FOR AN EXPLANATION ON 47% GETTING A HALL PASS FROM THE IRS....

Posted by: Ummahgummah | April 25, 2011 at 11:51 PM
Ummah, have stated months ago that like many males my age. Never took a typing class.In a large high school. No males in my class took typing. That was a "girl's" class. Always have been a 1 finger looking at the keyboard kind of guy. Then, when finished typing. To go over and look for my many mistakes.
The several 100 people was in reference to being "decendents of CAIN."

The oil price video?
That is more of a sepculator's fear of the mid East crisis. The falling dollar because the FEd was given the right to print money. This country's oil policies are a cumulative effect from the past several presidents. Remember $147.00 oil in 2008? That wasn't Obama.
This country has enough oil to last us for several decades. Just within the 48 states.

Ug, the tyke has worked my LAST nerve, same stats, no answers to questions

I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT 47% GETTING A FREE LUNCH JAY, AT OUR EXPENSE....MAYBE IF THEY HAD A LITTLE SKIN IN THE GAME OUT DEFICIT WOULDN'T BE 14T. Who are these people? nobody i hang with, we all believe in hard work, the value of a buck & long for the days we were the most powerful Nation on the planet. I don't give two figs for goat herders becoming a democracy, & most likely they don't much either.

Ummah, agree on your comment about the wedding.
The 47%? Many do not make enough in income to qualify. I do do find funny are the remarks about ,"Low income people don't pay taxes." But, these people never speak of the super rich who make billions and pay 0 taxes. But, get paid millions back. When they do, it's the 'Other side" is allowed that.

"THEY ARE MORE SELF ENTITLED THAN THE RICH THEY ATTACK, & FOR THE MOST PART ARE DOING QUITE WELL FOR THEMSELVES, AT OUR EXPENSE."
Where do you think lobbyists come from? The average joe? Or, the Rich? Why do you think the Rich hire the lobbyists and pay the politicians? It was the Rich who got the Republicans to believe in the tax lie.
Bet, no one looked at my New Yorker link.

"I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT 47% GETTING A FREE LUNCH JAY, AT OUR EXPENSE"
Sure that you are including the super rich that make billions and pay 0 taxes.

"An analysis earlier this week from the Urban Institute found that raising the capital gains tax for wealthy Americans from 15 to 20.6 percent would reduce the deficit to 3 percent of GDP, the budget goal outlined by President Obama, by 2019."

But, raised the taxes on the rich? NEVER?
Took them decades to get close to the pre Depression levels.

what case?
The "ANY TAXES" Guess that includes no sales tax, propery tax, taxes of any kind. What about the super rich who not only don't pay any taxes. But, get millions back? That's been going on for years. It's not just an Obama thing.
The link about China surpassing us in 5 years?
They will do whatever it takes to better themselves. Spend where needed, do what's needed.
US? We have a can't do that. Cost money. Can't do that, either. It costs, too. What can we do that's free, mentality. Cut taxes to the bone.
We didn't become what we are today by sitting around doing nothing.

as well, for myself, as my grandmother use to admonish, "one should never argue with an idiot"

NO MORE IDIOTS 2012

Posted by: thebuckstopshere | April 26, 2011 at 12:58 AM
Maybe never with one who has seen the many lies made by politicians.
"richie rich isn't exempt from sales tax, bet a private jet, yaght, foreign cars etc, their sales tax beats the proverbial snot out of the 47% NOT paying any fed tax." You do know that 1 of the Kennedy's sons. (I know a DEMOCRAT.) Tried to pass a law that stated that there should be a tax break for buying a super yacht. Since, it helped the boating industry. The boating industry said that they were doing just fine
Once again, no paying 0 taxes but getting millions back for the super rich mentioned. Reminds me of an article when minimum wage was increased.
A Congressman stated that people complained about that. But, said nothing about CEOs making 20-25% more than the year before.

"Why 1971? In short, that was the year that Nixon ended the gold standard for good."

You do know that gtting off the gold standard and letting the dollar float in the markets. Is a huge reason why the dollar is worth so much less today. Also, letting the FED control the economy by changing interests rates and being allowed to print money.

I have to agree 100% with this and only this. The more I hear Trump, the more I like him. And I'm sure he's nailing the majority of the American People as well. This new video on google nailed it for me 100%.

Is your ideal as an Independent the same as what was in that New Yorker link? To get rid of ALL taxes, and all agency's that have nothing to do with people's rights?
Just wondering.
"Ed Clark told The Nation that libertarians were getting ready to stage “a very big tea party,” because people were “sick to death” of taxes. The Libertarian Party platform called for the abolition of the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., as well as of federal regulatory agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Energy. The Party wanted to end Social Security, minimum-wage laws, gun control, and all personal and corporate income taxes; it proposed the legalization of prostitution, recreational drugs, and suicide. Government should be reduced to only one function: the protection of individual rights"

UG, if you really want Donald Trump to win in 2012, please stop with the kneejerk Rovian divisive political demonization tactics of "lib this" and "lib that".

If Donald Trump is going to win against Obama, he is going to need liberal voters, progressive voters, moderates, Hillary democrats, as well as conservatives and radical conservatives. No matter what Obama does, he will always have a substantial number of minorities and duped liberals and the MSM. Always.

This is not a right vs. left fight anymore; it is the American People, united against a FRAUD, fight.

And Trump is going to need all the American People united against Obama that he can get.

So unless your job here is to really get Obama elected again, PLEASE jettison the left vs. right warfare.

And I would appreciate some backup from this from the wiser savvier heads on here. I have always been honest when I agreed with any of you.

There's only one way Trump will win. That is all of us uniting against Obama.

But for the RIGHT reasons. Not DJ's reasons. DJ's reasons will never ever get the requisite number of liberal and progressive and Democrat voters.

It comes down to LEGAL issues and HIDING DOCUMENTS. And the economy. And not ending expensive useless wars as promised.